[GP Madrid] Coverage and Updates

[VsTheWorld]

Team spod is there with 4 people.

After 6 rounds, standings tell me that Stefan "spirit of the wretch" Czolk is sitting at 5-1, undoubtedly smashing face with cats and burn.

[flrn]

After 6 rounds, standings tell me that Stefan "spirit of the wretch" Czolk is sitting at 5-1, undoubtedly smashing face with cats and burn.

He had 3 byes. :)

[VsTheWorld]

Just Tweeted: (Tim) #gpmadrid LSV is out. Enchantress did not treat him kindly today. Now he's trying to find a Vintage deck to borrow for Sunday.

[Forbiddian]

Most recent coverage:

And that's why Meddling Mage sucks (that and punting the game by using Cursecatcher at the wrong time, LOL!)

[Tao]

And of course the brilliant decision to FoW Brainstorm.

[Forbiddian]

And of course the brilliant decision to FoW Brainstorm.

He did have 10 cards in hand, maybe all of them were good he felt better off Forcing something?

So to find out, I reconstructed his hand:

Force x2
Daze x2
Silvergill (he discarded this)
Random Blue x2
Meddling Mage (potentially he drew this)
Two ??? (not cast, lol)

Ok, I shouldn't have given him the benefit of the doubt. It's not even a tough decision or like about forgetting something, it's like he didn't understand that he should try to counter Ad Nauseum.

[Gocho]

Some pictures that I found in a spanish blog:
http://www.antoniotajuelo.com/grand-...drid-2010.html

[bruno_tiete]

Did Saito actually pass priority without breaking LED in game 1? Is his list safe enough to trust AN that much with a Catcher out?

[Felidae]

Awesome pics (wow the hole sight looks incridble), and so does the bin ;).

[DKK]

My buddy Guus just texted he´s at 7-0 in the green bracket.. so he just made day 2 (without byes). Way to go!

[Jak]

Anyone have info on what's being played at the top tables?

[Esper3k]

Is it just me or does it feel like they're really pushing combo in the feature matches?

Good luck to all the Sourcers there!

[Tychoides]

I like how a bunch of the pros admitted they didn't practice and got pwned. Can't play Jund in Legacy and get lucky off of Cascades, I guess. :)

[DKK]

Boom! 8-0 for Guus!

[Locutus]

Team spod is there with 4 people.

It's actually 5 people:
'Spirit of the Wretch' Stefan Czolk (8-2), 'Yulyn' Thomas Dörner (4-4 Drop), 'DerHeiler' Manuel Heiler (5-3), 'MSC' Martin Schreiber (4-4) and 'Chefkoch' Marius Laber (2-3-1 Drop).
I would be there too, but i have to take an important exam monday :(

[Atwa]

I'll post a full report later, but today I went 1-0, 2-0, 3-0, 3-1, 4-1, 4-1-1, 4-2-1 (out of day 2) and the last game I played for fun I lost too, so the total standing is 4-3-1. Not bad considering I piloted a deck I've never played before (New Horizons). I believe Skeggi also went 4-2-1 and dropped, but I might be wrong. Not sure about the rest of the Dutch group.

Tomorrow I'll go to play some EDH, maybe draft a little and trade some extra cards. Today was very long though ( I was at the site at 8am), so I'll go around 11 or something like that.

2220 players is a lot though and the room almost exploded when they announced we beat the formet record with over 10%. The fact they had not enough chairs and the tournament started a lot later (at 10am people were still in line to registrate) was a bummer, but the tournament went very smootly otherwise.

I'm off to sleep now, will keep you posted.

[Forbiddian]

You did better than LSV if that makes you feel better.

Go sources, own those "Pros."

[Nihil Credo]

If you missed it, while the coverage page only links the Blue standings, the Green standings are also online. Just change the end of the URL from "blue" to "green".

On the Green side, Marius Hausmann is 8-0. Notable 7-1s: Matteo Orsini-Jones, Tomoharu Saito, and some names that ring a bell: Alejandro Pais, Jaime Climent (22), Jan Schmidt, Alessandro Scalia.

[FoulQ]

I'm curious to hear how more sourcers are doing? Any others out there in the tournament, even if they sucked it up?

[emidln]

Citanul (Shaun Pauwels) went 7-2 with his build of NLS to make it in.